To Be Free (in honor of Prince Rodgers Nelson)

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What would it be like to be free?

To define your identity.  To dress or undress according to whim.  To wear your hair as you like.  To be man, woman, something in between, or not yet imagined.  To be not black, not white, brown, red, or yellow.  To be free of color or culture.  To just be.

To not be swayed by the judgments and condemnation of others, nor by their praise.  To do what you want and, if others like it, they can join you – or not.  To be strong enough to be who and what you want, whenever you want.

To be so very empowered that you can define yourself as something indefinable or unpronounceable and, because of that audacity, everyone willingly accommodates the symbol that you create for your identity.  To control your beingness and command honor and respect from all with whom you interact and engage.

To answer only to yourself and to whatever you define as your Higher Self.  To not have a Higher Self because you may at all times function as your Highest Self.  To reach the point of no separation and, therefore, have no language for the two that is One.

To be your own boss and generate your own income.

To create beyond what seems possible because you are so very unlimited.  To inspire others to fly, to think beyond, to go where no one will ever go because you are proof that one can have a unique expansiveness.

To break through boundaries and obstacles.  To rise above bullying, teasing, racism, sexism, ageism, any-ism because none of this can touch or hold back a shooting star.

To be so confident and assured that fear does not even occur to you or, if it comes near, you swat it away like a flea and continue on your glorious path.

To make the world adjust to your terms because everyone gravitates to a Free One because we all want to be free.  To be so free that those in your presence feel that sense of freedom and remember it and the happiness that it brought for years thereafter.

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